THE REASON WHY PUTIN IS VERY SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS UKRAINE’S DONBASS PEOPLE

(The Quiver) : For Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sending Russian forces to Ukraine was a difficult decision. Suprisingly the Russian President Vladimir Putin himself given such statement  to Russian state-affiliated media, Russia Today.
Speaking about Russian invasion in Ukraine ,  he said ,”Sending Russian forces to Ukraine was “a difficult decision, without a doubt”. Adding to it he said,” but that the Donbass people were not just “stray dogs.”
Now what made Ukraine’s worst rival  sympathetic  towards it’s region? Well, explaining this Putin went on relating the chain of events from past.

As per the Russia Today report, he explained that the situation in Ukraine had spiralled out of control after what he calls 2014’s “unconstitutional coup,” which he said had been actively backed by the West.

President Putin further alleged that the West did not even deny it and had openly said that they spent $5 billion to effect the ‘unconstitutional coup.’

But, some parts of Ukraine rejected the regime change. Putin claimed, as reported by Russia Today, that dissidents in the southeastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions had subsequently faced persecution.
The Kiev government had conducted large-scale military operations in the Donbass, he reminded his listeners. After they failed, the Minsk agreements were signed by both parties, setting out a roadmap to a peaceful exit from the conflict.

According to Putin, Moscow had tried to do all it could to maintain the territorial integrity of Ukraine and, at the same time, protect the interests of the people of Donetsk and Lugansk, but Kiev had blockaded Donbass, oppressed its people and shelled the Donbass, he said.

“Listen, people in the Donbass are not stray dogs. Between 13,000 and 14,000 people have been killed over the years. More than 500 children have been killed or crippled. And what’s especially intolerable is that the so-called ‘civilised’ West preferred not to notice it during those eight years,” Putin said, as reported by Russia Today.